Director Ron Howard has sold his home in Armonk, N.Y., for the asking price of $27.5 million.

Director Ron Howard has sold his home in Armonk, N.Y., for the asking price of $27.5 million.

The sale closed Thursday, according to Tamar Lurie of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, who listed the roughly 32-acre lakefront estate with Lyn Stevens of Sotheby's International Realty. The property went into contract about two weeks after its listing in early May, Ms. Lurie said.